Imperialist aid deepened postcolonial stagnation while empowering comprador elites
Evidence
In the post-colonial states where the nationalism of the national bourgeoisie had been expected to work all kinds of wonders, one witnessed, on the one hand, enormous consolidation of the national bourgeoisie itself, with its ability to take hold of the Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South dialogue over terms of trade; and, on the other, the stagnation, increasing dependence, dictatorial brutality, religious millenarianism, and general fracturings of polity and society – despite, and frequently because of, imperialist aid, investment and patronage. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 58
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interests in how institutions and cooperation shape outcomes — here, how foreign patronage corrupts rather than stabilizes developing states.